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TIL that the majority of the time, the “Catfish” is the one who initially contacts the hit TV show MTVs Catfish

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eW1L TIL that in 2000 the major motorcycle companies of the world reached a gentlemen’s agreement to end a speed war of one-upmanship to try make the worlds fastest production bike, as they feared speeds would escalate to extremely dangerous speeds before it would end. A limit of 186 mph was agreed.
N7N06 TIL that the Olympic torch has 2 flames in it - one yellow that may get extinguished due to wind/rain - but another hotter blue flame (inside the torch) that can reignite the yellow flame if it gets extinguished.. both these are sourced from the original flame from 1928
0dZZv TIL 1878 was the year of the last witch trial - for perspective of how recent that is - it was only 18 years before the invention of the radio. It took until 1918 to finally declare witch trials were a thing of the past.
RjY8 TIL that in 1958 the US government funded a experiment to try to get dolphins to talk with humans by having a human and dolphin live together. When the dolphin went through adolescence he tried courting the woman, and she began to give him hand jobs, which made him more receptive to the lessons.
7rkmZ TIL that in the comics Superman never served in the army in WW2. The reason was that if he did, he would have ended the war in mere moments, but that would diminish the role of real soldiers at the time. So, Clark Kent was made to fail the Draft due to his X-ray vision during eye test.